Hispanic and Latino Issues

Black Leaders in Phoenix Struggle to Retain Power in a District They've Historically Controlled

Joe Arpaio's New Pal Michael Nowakowski Snuggles Up to Tom Horne and John Huppenthal?

I'm beginning to wonder if Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski is still a Democrat. By now, everyone in Sand Land knows that Nowakowski, executive vice president of the Cesar Chavez Foundation and the head honcho of that foundation's communications arm, the Radio Campesina Network, recently ... More >>

Glendale Councilwoman Joyce Clark's Got a Problem with Latinos? Angrily Says that Latina on City Council Doesn't Understand English

Councilwoman Joyce Clark is making some twisted comments about Latinos in her campaign literature as she seeks re-election to the Glendale City Council.   In her campaign fliers, Clark criticizes fellow Glendale Councilwoman Norma Alvarez because she "has endorsed and is solely supporting ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Hispanic vs. Latino/a and "Crystal Blue Persuasion"

Kyrsten Sinema: Being Latina Ain't All It's Cracked Up To Be

See also: Kyrsten Sinema Identified (Wrongly) as Latino by NALEO See also: Can Kyrsten Sinema Win in Congressional District 9? See also: Kyrsten Sinema's Hilary Rosen Moment, and Her Persistent Verbal Flubbery My Monday blog item discussing Ninth Congressional District candidate Kyrsten Sinema and ... More >>

SB 1070 Fuels a Movement of New Voters

Ask a Mexican on Mexico's Woes and Remembering Ruben Salazar

Arizona's Voter ID Law Upheld by Ninth Circuit Court; Federal Voter-Registration Forms Must be Accepted, Though

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Arizona's voter-approved 2004 law requiring voters to show proof of citizenship before receiving a ballot.The Appeals Court mostly shot down the challenges to the law, which had itself been upheld in Arizona U.S.  District Court.Arizona can dem ... More >>

Mayor of Connecticut Suburb Would Fit Right In Among Arizona Politicians

Apparently, Arizona hasn't cornered the market on blatant insensitivity to the Latino community. In case you missed it, Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. of East Haven, Connecticut shared some thoughts with a reporter who questioned him about how he was going to reach out to the Latino community. He makes t ... More >>

How Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change Phoenix's City Council Race

John Huppenthal's Edict: 10 Percent of TUSD Cut Till MAS Is Killed

Today, state Schools Superintendent John Huppenthal ordered that 10 percent of the budget for the Tucson Unified School District be withheld until TUSD eradicates its Mexican American Studies program.The cut is punitive and retroactive to August 15, 2011.No great drama there. Huppenthal announced th ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on SB 1070 and Cultural Identifications

Mexican-American Birth Rate Drives U.S. Latino Population Higher

​The Latino population has risen significantly in the United States in the past decade, but not  just because of immigration. Actually, a higher birth rate among Hispanic women is now the dominant factor in the rise, according to a new study.The driving force for this surge: Mexican-Amer ... More >>

MLB All-Star Game Boycott Bad Idea Says State Representative Ruben Gallego

Arizona state Representative Ruben Gallego opposes a boycott of the upcoming All-Star Game in Phoenix.Ever since Governor Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law, pro-immigrant activists and politicians have had different perspectives on how to best show disapproval of the controversial imm ... More >>

Russell Pearce Bashes Immigrants While Hispanics Are Saving Arizona's Economy

Senate President Russell Pearce claims illegal immigration costs taxpayers beaucoup cash; in reality Hispanics, legal and illegal, are aiding the state's economy.A boom in Arizona's Latino population has resulted in a powerful purchasing bloc that could help save the state's struggling economy.This, ... More >>

Art of the City

Ethnic Studies Equals Politically Conscious Latino Students -- Which is Exactly Why Its Enemies Want to Kill It

Russell Pearce in a Pantsuit? Susana Martinez, Much More Than That

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez: Not as easily dismissed as the Dems would likeYou may have read of New Mexico's newly-elected Republican Governor Susana Martinez's executive order rescinding what she's referred to as that state's "sanctuary status," and ordering state police to inquire into the ... More >>

Arizona Has Some of the Fattest Hispanics in the Country, According to New Study

www.dailydemotivators.comChances are we'll be seeing this in some of Russell Pearce's campaign literature at some point in the near future.​Here's some new fuel we'll likely see added to the knuckle-dragging nativists' racist fire: Arizona is home to some of the fattest Hispanics in the country, a ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Colossal Canard: Hispanics Support SB 1070

Surprise, surprise: Russell Pearce prevaricates yet againSometimes I wonder if state Senator Russell Pearce would know the truth if it bopped him upside his mutton head. Known for spewing bogus stats conflating crime with Mexican migration, he can't seem to help himself, no matter how bogus the fact ... More >>

Right-Wingers Lie on SB 1070, Claim (Falsely) That Majority of Hispanics Support It

Sultans of falsehoods: Man, is Bill O'Reilly looking old these days, or what?The lefty Think Progress Web site has addressed an absurd, nativist shibboleth that I've heard kicking around the conservanut echo chamber lately: The lie that SB 1070, Arizona's new "papers please" legislation, is actually ... More >>

On White Power, and Avoiding Tap Water

Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!

Early Chicano Art Documentaries

Retro Active

L.A. County curator brings ’60s Chicano movement into focus

944 Magazine Apologizes to Hispanics for Exec's Racist Comments

944 says it really likes Hispanics now. No, honest... Some of you may be familiar with the legal donnybrook Scottsdale's 944 Magazine is engaged in regarding the handling of its 2008 Super Bowl party, which 944 hosted along with its business partner in the venture, California-based Explosive P ... More >>

Phoenix’s Latino Rockabilly Set Turns the Beat Around

Your Mexican-American Reading List for the Holidays

Arpaio Struts into the Civic Center and Vows It's Not His Last Campaign

“The Mexican American Mirror” at Phoenix Museum of History traces Phoenix’s Latin roots

ACLU, MALDEF lawsuit slams MCSO, demands relief from racial profiling.

Resurrecting gimmicky coverage aimed at Latinos is good for the bottom line, not for the residents of Brown Town

Our new columnist finds plenty to love about being brown. (Just don't call him Hispanic)

What's Your Major?

And other great pickup lines

Balls on the Tree

Lies, avocados, and statistics

Downtown Brown

Barrio businesses are flourishing, but not in downtown Phoenix

BEST RADICAL CHICANO CYBERPROPAGANDA

Ladmo Park Chicano Chronicle

Vote For Me Or I'll Shoot This Dog

Just Kidding. But Phoenix City Council candidate Jessica Florez is trying to soften her tough-girl image.

The Pursuit of Happiness

Felix Pire's show at the Herberger is part of a local surge in Latino theater

Ladmo's Bark

Feisty Chicano e-zine seeks to bolster Latino activism

Brown Out

Teatro Bravo takes on show biz's dim view of Chicanos, among other things, in The Mission

Primary Colors

A Phoenix City Council race is pitting Hispanic hopes against black history

War of the Words

With big dollars at stake, rival newspapers duke it out to capture Valley's rapidly growing Hispanic market

Man on the Verge

Celebrated ASU playwright Guillermo Reyes -- who's Latino and gay -- gives thundering voice to the marginalized

Critical Connection

Language isn't the only thing getting lost in the translation as Hispanic patients struggle to communicate with English-speaking ER doctors

Illegal Turn

Drive to license undocumented immigrant motorists accelerates through Latino community

Cesar Saludo

Latino lawmakers' persistence pays dividends with designation of Chávez Day

HIV League

THE FREALITY OF THE "RIOT"

SEPARATE BUT MAS QUE IGUAL

NEARLY HALF OF ARIZONA'S HISPANIC CHILDREN DROP OUT OF PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS. SOME PARENTS THINK THE SOLUTION IS HISPANIC CHARTER SCHOOLS.